Question: The holiday of Passover tells about the way the Jewish people came out of Egyptian slavery. In fact, for Kabbalists, it sounds different. There is our egoism, our nature, and we talk about how we come out of this egoism.
I have a feeling now that this is not a Jewish holiday, but a worldwide holiday, especially considering the events that have happened in the world.
What does the Passover holiday mean for the world? How do you feel about this?
Answer: The world feels that it feels bad. But it does not know what the reason is. What the cure for the fact that it feels bad, it does not know either. Like a child: he just feels bad and that is it. There is no recognition of evil, that is, it does not know what the cause of suffering is.
And the reason for suffering is a large, sharp increase in egoism, which sometimes freezes a little and suddenly grows with a jerk.
Question: Does it mean that it is impossible to say that the world feels like it is inside Egyptian slavery, under the slavery of egoism?
Answer: It depends only on the way people feel. But they just feel that they feel bad.
Question: Has the Passover holiday not reached humanity yet?
Answer: I think it is not quite right to call it a holiday. The world does not feel that its egoism is the cause of all its suffering.
But it is necessary to feel that! If we begin to look closely at our egoistic nature, at how we treat each other, then we can conclude that our whole world is evil because we are such egoists, because we wish evil to each other, and we are in opposition, in contradiction, in internal and external confrontation with each other. We are slaves of this egoistic force that guides us, twists us, and pushes us.
To recognize the evil of our nature is the most important thing. Because after that we can already come to an understanding of how to get rid of it.
Question: If we assume that a person begins to feel this, what will his thoughts be? How can one get rid of this? Except for the inner cry: “I want to get rid of it! I do not want to be an egoist!”—what else do we need?
Answer: Nothing! Only to demand from nature that it change us. Nothing else. We do not have to make any extra effort because there is really nothing we can do. If we are inside egoism, then any of our attempts and actions will still be egoistic, and we will only deceive ourselves with them.
What we can do, however, is to gather, discuss our state, conclude that it is simply terrible, and that there is no way for us to get rid of it ourselves unless we just convince our nature to leave us alone, that we do not want to be under the control of egoism. Take away from us this alien will, this upper force, so that it does not command each of us and does not push us against each other!
Question: Will a person then have a feeling that he is under the control of the Pharaoh?
Answer: Yes, that he is a slave to the evil force of nature. Then he will begin to understand this story correctly. He will begin to treat it correctly, that in fact, this evil nature was created in such a way on purpose. By whom? By a positive force, the Creator, so that we turn to Him personally, so that He removes this evil nature from us.
If we convince the Creator to remove this evil egoistic force that pushes us against each other and does not give us peace, then this will become a truly worldwide holiday in which everyone is interconnected, in which everyone begins to treat each other correctly—with love, with knowledge, and with the understanding that we are one, a single system.
Question: What is “the people’s exit out of slavery”? Are people the whole world?
Answer: Absolutely the whole world.
Question: What about the leader who leads them? The Torah says Moshe or Moses—what is it?
Answer: This is from the word “Moshech,” pulling. It is the force that pulls people out of their egoism.
This force comes from above. The force of recognition of the evil in which we were, and the good in which we can be.
Question: Do you think that humanity should reach out to this force?
Answer: Everyone should feel from within himself that he is shouting, that he wants this. We need nothing else. There is no need to follow any people, leaders, redeemers, messiahs, and so on. We do not need anything else.
Question: What is freedom then? After all, this is a holiday of freedom.
Answer: Freedom from egoism, freedom from the fact that you are under the influence of evil all the time and it is your inner evil that pushes you to be evil to others. All this is the holiday of redemption. This is the holiday of spring.
Only egoism is the cause of our suffering. There is nothing else. There are only two forces in the world: positive and negative.
Question: Then why do we not just concentrate on this point?
Answer: We do not want to, we resist with all our might just not to get close to it because we are all egoists. Only in egoism do I feel myself and the whole world. I cannot imagine how to feel the world outside of this quality.
Question: In principle, does the wisdom of Kabbalah speak only about this—how to feel who you are, your nature, and how to exit it?
Answer: Yes.
Question: What to do to make people start doing it?
Answer: If we do not want to do it, we will be forced to. But everything will be fine.
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From KabTV’s “News with Dr. Michael Laitman” 4/15/22
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